At The Assembly Line, we connect places and businesses with the people around them.
We are project managers, advisers and practitioners who bring people together to make a sustainable difference in places, spaces and with businesses.
Led by Diane Cunningham we specialise in strategic advice and project management, working with local authorities, developers, housing providers, architects and others who want to create resilient and vibrant spaces that benefit everyone.
Using our expertise from the public and private sectors, we animate places, support enterprise, bring buildings back into use, offer strategic advice on markets and engage businesses around high streets, bringing together the best team for each project, providing open and honest feedback to develop meaningful actions.
We build communication programmes to reach a wide range of stakeholders and create and deliver marketing campaigns that increase opportunities for businesses, building and growing relationships between places, businesses and community.
Our no-nonsense approach to managing projects ensures we make sense of disparate strands and deliver cost-effective results.
With colleagues in London and Liverpool, we work in places and with businesses across the UK.
We support existing projects, create new ones, identify new uses in spaces and empty premises and ensure they stack up commercially and have the right partnership in place to succeed.
Our founder, Diane Cunningham, was an appointed Expert to the government’s High Streets Task Force, an inaugural London Market Board member and is a Fellow of the Institute of Place Management.
We advise on marketing and business development, particularly in regulated services businesses to develop new services, grow sales and build relationships.
We support businesses of many sizes from financial services companies to social enterprises, owner managers and those working with local government.
Featured Projects & Insights
We work on projects across the UK, from neighbourhood high streets to market towns and city centres and with businesses of many sizes from those in The City to start-ups.
Rising construction costs, inflation, high interest rates and a reduction in investment values had led to a leisure-led development in Crewe town centre being cancelled. We carried out a feasibility report to establish meanwhile uses for the council-owned site.
A wander around the East End of London. On a walk with The Museum of the Home we reflected on how the area’s history had shaped its housing and which aspects are just as relevant today when thinking about places and neighbourhoods.